HIST 6840 - Readings in Atlantic History

Atlantic history as an area of academic inquiry focuses on the connections among the peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This readings course will introduce students to this field, enabling them to acquire the necessary conceptual and methodological framework to pursue further studies in Atlantic history. In this course, we will examine scholarly works that address key topics in Atlantic history, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Topics may include the nature of African, European, and American societies on the eve of contact; the transfer of peoples and pathogens to the Americas; the movement of commodities; slavery and emancipation; revolution and the transfer of revolutionary ideas.

Credits: 3 hrs.

Notes: Open to Graduate Students Only.